Why The US Hates Roundabouts! | Americans React | Loners #80
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
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Hello, again Loners! In this video, we look at why even we as Americans in fact do hate roundabouts lol. It was interesting to see the history and influence Europe had on this invention. If you enjoy our reaction please make sure to like and subscribe! Also, make sure to jump over to our vlog channel for more personal and fun content. Thank you all :)
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0:00 - Intro
2:13 - Reaction
19:30 - Outro 
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You have to yield for cars already in the roundabout. All cars only come from one direection. How can this be confusing?
So true👍, but if a driver never learned it, it is scarry and becomes dangerous for everyone.
Roundabout is God sent. So logical and easy to use. You wouldent survive in Norway if you cant use a roundabout. They are everywhere here. Stop signs you hardly see but we use yield signs a lot.
@@lbergen001 If someone doesn't even know the basics, then he is not allowed to drive a vehicle. It's that simple!
@@lbergen001 in comparison to europe, US citizens just can't operate a car properly, applies for the rules too 🤣
Roundabouts and Afghanistan are both up there as embarrassments for the USA. Hot take…I genuinely think that more US lives have been lost at intersections than in Afghanistan. Let’s take the videos’ stats at face value; if we consider the 20 years of the war…that’s approximately 180,000 deaths. Isn’t that more than troops in Afghanistan?
US, the home of cars and driving, yet people can’t drive manual gears or navigate roundabouts
Yeah..... Americans don't like to change anything in their country, because they even think using the Imperial system is normal. 🤣
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I am an English Londoner. Let's take weather temperatures. : 20C-68F, 21C-70F, 24C-75F, 27C-80F, 29C-85F, 32C-90F, 38C-100F. Which is more emphatic and impactful? Saying it's 38 Degrees or it's 100 Degrees? The Celsius figures are so close together that there is little difference. In Measuring height, once again what is the most meaningful? He is 5' Feet 6 or 1.73 Metres or 6 Feet or 1.83 or 6'6'=1.98?
It's all rather bland, is it not? Would you rather complicate and use MPH TO Kilometres and add 7/5 to each mile.? Change just for the sake of it,is not always the answer:)
Typo: "8/5"...
Nonsense 😂😂
@@rolflin Your nonsense comment makes no sense but I like the way that you, carefully, edited this Magnum Opus
A nice side effect of roundabouts is the creation of unused space in the middle of the circle. This area is often filled with greenery or art. So they help to bring something beautiful into the concrete wasteland.
The amount of stop signs in the US is insane. Here in Norway they are used at dangerous intersections with limited visibility.
same in UK too
yeah. Here in Australia, STOP signs are very rare, the only one I can think of any where near me is at a level crossing without signals (small back road). every intersection that is not a round about or traffic lights is a 'Give Way', even the T junctions. 4 way intersections without lights will have 1 clear 'right of way' with the other axis being give way.
@@myopinion69420 area i live in, Warwickshire UK, lots small country lanes and old building blocking view on junctions around where i live so more than normal in my area for the stop sign, heading though the countryside Wales do see the odd one But they are the most dangerous junctions like pulling out blind junction on to a 60 road were trucks could do 50 you want to take time to make sure its safe, open windows listen for traffic as well look as well as you can and nudge very slowly out till point just go do not hang about in the danger zone. more older areas UK you may see more or small country lanes but not very often, they for the most dangerous junctions, give way for rest
@@stevekenilworth yeah here is the opposite for country areas. usually there is a decent 'nature strip' between the road and the fence line and even then, most of the fences are wire, no hedges or stone walls.
worst you have to deal with is blackberry/gorse bushes or trees.
So true I really don’t understand the idea of putting stopsigns at every crossroad. 1 good thing of roundabouts is the slow down traffic automatically so the crossing is safer. In the USA everything about cars, with roundabouts the crossings are safer for al road users.
Roundabouts are effective and safe, even in small intersections. Lots of data confirms this.
Heck even Mythbusters confirmed it long ago.
What is the most dangerous thing on European roads? - American drivers on the German Autobahn! 🎚🙏☠
Not Just Bikes has great information about the good use of roundabouts
Stoplights are like blocking arteries. The blood is never allowed to flow as it should.
The diameter of a roundabout determines the traffic speed. The larger the faster. In a city intersection, it is an excellent solution to replace the intersection with a roundabout small enough to reduce speed and large enough to ensure traffic flow. The roundabout can be quite small and an easy fit.
Love your conversations. Learn about you 2 and the US every time.
Any roundabout is safer then any intersection, Europe proofs that. Any bad driver is a risk on any road. If you say you are afraid on a roundabout, you actually say you are a bad driver. Please learn to be a safe driver.
Europe also barely has any stop signs. I think Not Just Bikes made a video about that.
The only tricky roundabout I know in Europe is la place de l'Étoile in Paris. It can be challenging and sometimes a little bit scary and chaotic but you have to realise that twelve large avenues converge into the roundabout, is huge.
This one is not a "modern" roundabout though, people entering have priority.
Roundabouts are excellent. Especially those invented in the Netherlands - the collision-free turbo (turbine) roundabouts. These are the best if a road has a few lanes.
Best thing about roundabouts. When there is no or low trafic you're riding the never ending green wave and don't have to stop at any time.
Heh. As a European from a relatively small country I don't have any fear of roundabouts even in larger European cities, except for my very own Homer Simpson moment in Paris. Still sticks with me ;)
In the UK you just have to reset your brain. Driving in the countryside is no problem, but roundabouts in London or a larger city... I guess it feels like an American driving a manual for the first time , lots of grinding at first, but you get it eventually :)
16:10 - This one is in my opinion the most important reason why US american don't like roundabouts: the driving teaching system. If you had a system similar to what we have here in Europe, instead of leaving drivers' education in the hands of a parent or a relative, new drivers would've been acquainted with the roundabout rules and would've learned how to drive in them a long time ago and this irrational fear of roundabouts would've never existed or at least would've progressively disappeared.
Dude, if you're 6 and you still don't know how to drive in a roundabout I don't know what to tell you.
"How to drive in a roundabout" wasn't part of what the teacher bothered teaching me.
@@Londronable - I don't know where you're from but here in Portugal it's part of both the theoretical and practical driving education. I took my drivers' licence in the mid-80's and despite roundabouts being more scarce than they are now, I was taught their rules and how to drive in them.
@@module79l28 I mean, you were probably taught it BECAUSE they were more scarce.
They're everywhere where I live so no need for it. It would be like telling you need to stop for a red light.
When I learned how to drive in Germany, I don’t think there was a single roundabout in my area. But I had zero problems navigating them once they started popping up in Germany or while driving in France. I mean why would you able to learn how to drive through them with an instructor during let’s say 15 hours of driving lessons that you couldn’t learn during 30 hours of driving on your own?
The larger roundabouts are somewhere between tuning right into a one-way priority road and merging into a dual carriageway. The smaller ones are more like an area where you have multiple T-shaped intersections within a very short distance.
@@Londronable - No, I was taught about them because they EXISTED.
Do you assume that those who don't drive know how roundabouts work and what their rules are or that they must stop at a red light (or when it's already amber, for that matter)? Well, the driving school system doesn't.
I'm a Brit and when I was learning to drive I hated roundabouts but as soon as I got used to them I think they are so much better than traffic lights as they're are safer and improve traffic flow so you get everywhere much quicker.
Have a look at the magic roundabout in England its 7 roundabouts all in one circle.
But it works fine, so long as you don't think about it.
And if you think about it, it is merely a large roundabout which compared to almost all roundabouts, which are circular one-way roads, is a circular two-way road with a bit of a medium that has smaller roundabouts wherever the roads leading to the magic roundabout meet this circular two-way road.
I love it when Us citizens are talking about roundabouts. It’s like a Brit see mainlanders talking about roundabout. Always funny.
“They’re too confusing”
Hahahahahahaaaaa.
And they let you all have guns?!?
The traffic lights in the US can be a bit confusing to drivers used to the U.K. and European systems. Over here if the lights show red then all traffic stops, if a left or right turn is permitted then a green light with an arrow shows as and when that is permitted. In the US you can normally turn right on a red light unless a sign says otherwise which can be confusing if you don’t know the system.
Let us not forget that in a lot of states Americans get a drivers license by turning 16, driving around a parking lot and answering 20 questions. They seem to learn mostly by doing (while already having a license Oo) and if there are no roundabouts in your area it's not that surprising the unfamiliarity makes them confusing.
I think that maybe the problem with the often too simple process of obtaining a driver’s license in the U.S. isn’t that new drivers don’t know the rules or don’t have enough experience (they’ll get their experience sooner or later and they’ll also learn most at least somewhat important rules over time) but that they don’t get conditioned by a long supervised learning process to strictly stick to the rules and conventions (like how to check all mirrors regularly etc.).
Of course a strict and comprehensive driving test might require that to pass it you must have undergone a sufficient long strictly supervised driving experience. And the younger age might also lead to an overall more reckless driving. In short, I don’t think that the lack of training means people don’t know they shouldn’t run a red light. They know it is wrong, it just that lack a moulding of their behaviour.
Thus I don’t think a lack of training with roundabouts is the problem. When I learned driving in Germany, I don’t think I encountered a single roundabout, yet I had zero problems adapting once they started popping up in larger numbers. And I don’t remember any kind of protest or opposition against them. Which makes me wonder whether their dislike in the U.S. is a cultural, a Karen phenomenon.
Even the “roundabout” around the Arc de Triomphe (place Charles-de-Gaulle) in Paris was more fun than scary for me. But I have concede that not everybody will like new challenges like that in regard to driving.
As a German I love them for two reasons: More cars can pass per hour and there are less traffic jams. It's also way faster
I think the two trouble in the USA with roundabouts is that some are traffic circles rather than roundabouts and almost no one knows how to use them properly. They’re proven to be safer and faster than traffic light junctions.
Same here in Canada. Some people are really confused and you can always see on social media people saying they are archaic and does not work. I like roundabouts and are perfectly fine navigating through them.
Archaic😂😂
I started driving in the 90s, when there were hardly any roundabouts here in Germany. Gradually, roundabouts were introduced. So it's not a problem at all, it doesn't happen overnight that there is roundabout traffic everywhere. Even the most stubborn car driver gets used to it.
well one thing that came in mind in this, was " Be silent everyone ! to change right to left traffic.
Roundabouts are extremely safe, fluid, fast and comfortable, but only, ONLY if everyone is aware of it's rules and respects them.
While I was in the USA I had to drive through a roundabout (the only roundabout I ever saw in that country) just North of the university. And I was constantly afraid because I had many close calls. People who believed that since they are on the main road, they had the right of way and they never noticed the yield signs.
If however people know the rules, such as they do in my country or anywhere in Europe, it's one of the best things.
I guess this is similar in a way to the metric system: it's way better but the learning curve for the entire population is so long that nobody wants to assume the risk of the chaos that would characterize the time that is necessary for the transition.
Sweden for example could transition from left side driving to right side in 1967 when the amount of traffic was a fraction of what it is today. There were a few days of chaos and confusion (there are some hilarious photographs taken on the streets of Stockholm during the first days), but everyone learned the new rules pretty soon. I'm not sure that they would risk such a decision today.
I can see how it would be difficult to retrofit roundabouts into US grid pattern cities, where there isn't spare land to replace intersections with roundabouts. Or maybe not, the US has lots of land and your streets are generally wider than ours so you tell me. The way we handle the pedestrian crossings with stop lights is that they are generally about 50 feet back from a roundabout so that they don't interfere with the flow around the roundabout, but also we have the pedestrian right of way rule where the responsibility is on drivers to watch out for pedestrians stepping into the road anywhere, and to stop when they do.
Close to the exits of a roundabout in urban areas there will generally be steel fencing on the edge of the pavement to stop pedestrians walking out where cars are giving way before joining the cars going around.
Frank Blackmore didn't invent the modern roundabout as such. He led the development of the offside priority rule at roundabouts - which overcame capacity and safety issues at such installations, greatly increasing their usefulness and popularity around the world - and subsequently also invented the mini roundabout.
He campaigned to secure priority from the right at conventional roundabouts from 1966. He then worked on the idea of a roundabout with no central island in his own time, knowing it would not be taken seriously. But, after a long struggle, he finally got the first mini-roundabout introduced in Peterborough in 1969, stationing himself there with a loud-hailer to tell motorists what to do when they met it.
Blackmore was motivated by a desire to see an end to choked-up junctions, which he found frustrating and unnecessary. Eventually, he elaborated on his original idea by developing multiple roundabouts. Two of his projects are the so-called magic roundabout in Swindon (1972) and the multi-ring junction in Hemel Hempstead (1973), which, love them or loathe them, are cunningly effective ways of moving traffic. He was also keen to improve road safety, and the mini-roundabout has indeed proved much safer than traffic lights.
The whole point of roundabouts is to keep the traffic flowing so they should never have stop signs. Defies the whole point of having a roundabout.
In Sweden, we started to replace a lot of intersections with roundabouts 30 years ago, and it just works so much better. There's a much better flow, however intersections makes sense in some cases.
They hate roundabouts because American cars don't steer very well😂
In the Uk roundabouts are everywhere even in busy intersections in cities. The fact is they work whatever the size of the intersection
At some point traffic lights are more useful though. It might make more sense for the space or for cyclists and pedestrians for example. I really like roundabouts, but I think you always have to look at the specific intersection to decide what's the best option.
The era of modern roundabouts began in the United Kingdom in 1956. The British invented them and they are worldwide.
As people grew up with them and used them either by crossing the road on foot, with a bicycle and or a car. That means young people know how to use them BEFORE they drive a car in lessons.
With a car the roundabout can be confusing for learners, but after awhile you'll get used to them.
Some comments you'll get will say there easy. BUT they forget its been in our cultures for most of their lives. The US has not had that culture and for them they are worried about NEW stuff. As with all thing the more you use it then better you get at it.
The thing about perceived safety is actually very important! But in many ways it works counter-intuitive (which is why it's important that planners don't get persuaded by public opinion all the time. Example:
Tunnels are objectively a generally more dangerous place for an accident to occur, hovewer, they are statistically so much more safe than other stretches of road as people automatically slow down, and pay more attention when they drive through them. This is because it feels a little bit uncomfortable so people are more alert. This is an important thing. To bring this further, this is the reason why you can't build highway-standard roads in neighbourhoods and just say "15 miles per hour" or some shit, because as long as people are comfortable driving a lot faster, many will. Therefore, it is soooo important for traffic safety to actually make road design and speed limits make sense together, and actually to some degree make it less comfortable to drive. Narrow down lanes, sharpening turns, ROUNDABOUTS, etc. They are natural ways of making people automatially slow down and pay attention instead of building a huge ass sign that says "Slow down", which 1: Doesn't help as much, and 2: Take your eyes away from the road.
Now what you mentioned about in large cities, most European city centres don't really have them either. They mentioned in the video how they increase traffic flow, reduce stops, reduce both accidents and especially fatal/serious accidents, are cheaper to build and maintain, they do absolutely take more physical space, which often isn't available in city centres anyways. (Not that you would want to tear down density in the centre in order to build them though, as that would not end up being a net positive, but that's a different story, haha)
I’ve tried looking up statistics on running red lights by country and couldn’t find much data. On Statista (1) I found that in Germany there were about 250’000 registered violations per year in conjunction with red lights. For the U.S. I only found numbers for the city of Albuquerque (2) of about 36’000 per year. Scaled by population, this would mean there 20x more red light violations in Albuquerque than in Germany.
(1) Anzahl der registrierten Verstöße im Zusammenhang mit roten Ampeln im deutschen Straßenverkehr von 2010 bis 2014
(2) Table 10: Citations Per Year
Basically, just look if the left side is clear, since by the time a car coming from the 2nd exit reaches you, you’d be able to just go.
i live in the uk and 1 mile from my house we had a roundabout there for 50+ years no problems then the council decided to put crossroads there for the last 5 years at the cost of £2 million and we went from 10 crashes a year with the roundabout to 60+ with the lights plus huge traffic jams because it takes 5 min for the lights to cycle back to go but recently there are talks to put the roundabout back but that will cost us another 2 million
Hello from a island with one traffic light, the rest are round a bouts , where everyone hates that traffic light
Of course, you also have to admit to U.S. Americans that they never really learned to drive like Europeans. In the U.S., the driver's license is practically given away, while in Western Europe you can pay up to 3,000 euros, but you also learn something.
There is nothing confusing about them. Most basic one is just 4 T shaped crossroads aranged together. On one road you have to give way to other. Simple as it can get. And you are going slow on them anyway so speed is not a problem. There is nothing better than good roundabout.
From the dash cam videos from the US, I've seen, four way stops just seem like a pointless joke.
There is a video by an American living in the UK, showing how he could drive some distance home from work and only having to stop once for a right hand turn into the small lane leading to his house
Y'all need to check the magic roundabouts they have in the UK 😅
Roundabouts don't have to be so large. In Sweden roundabouts can have a 30 feet inner diameter and in England I've experienced roundabouts consisting of a painted patch (!) in the middle of the intersection. Works just perfectly.
One major obstacle may be the American practice of right of way when turning right at a red-light. This contracdicts the rule of roundabouts to yeild when you meet traffic from the left. So you have to relearn different ways of driving in roundabouts and intersections (with och without lights). Goodluck fellow drivers!
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the purpose of roundabouts is to NOT have stop signs… You only yield for traffic ALEADY in the roundabout (which in all countries but GB is cars coming from the left). That‘s it…
hello from France
France has created roundabouts to avoid speeding and dangerous crossroads and it works! it's just a matter of habit, even if sometimes it annoys the French!! after passing my driving license when i was young, the first time i took the roundabout of the champs élysée in Paris (look on google!), i tightened my buttocks! :) since I can take all the roundabouts in the world.
Have a look at the Myth busters episode where they compared Roundabouts versus four way stops .❤
My experience of driving in the US is that people drive more with their egos.. It´s always "I need to go first". I was in Cannon Beach, Oregon and just to drive out from a parking lot in to traffic was insane, it was a long queue that was barely moving and I just needed one person to stop for 15 sec so I could get out and it took 10-15 minutes before I was let out... This would never happen in Sweden. Are their egos driving Sweden? Of course their are, but no way near the amount that exist in the US.
And what I have heard from Americans living or visiting Europe, we are mostly better driver over here.
The "need to go first" is due to them not having the "yield to traffic from right" rule like we have in Europe.
Thats coz americans visit only 5 places. Have you driven in southern europe? Lol
@@Gazer75 that's definitely something they need to put in then.
@Inquisitive no, the lowest I have driven is Nurberg, Germany.
@@Deadwoods84 Yeah well half of europe is a completely different beast lemme tell ya that much
I think the approach of traffic problems are so different between USA and Europe
In the Netherlands in 1970 3200 people killed by traffic 15 million people in the Netherlands. In 2022 the were 737 people killed by traffic almost 18 million people in the Netherlands. There are now discussion because the number did go up after a Trent of lower amount of people every year since 1970. The road design in the Netherlands very strict, the design of the road and the max speed should be logical.
Re your description of small r/bouts in urban areas , in the UK we have lots of 'mini' roundabouts, properly called circulatory junctions. The entrance to the junction being controlled by a 'Give Way' sign, (Yield?) or road marking . Although not perfect they are a vast improvement on uncontrolled junctions. They of course give greater clarity in case of collision as to faulty driving.
Some years ago, when my son was at Uni, a group on his course was given a project to prove that Traffic Lights were better than Roundabouts. The course was sponsored by a traffic light manufacturer. Guess what the project found?
The only roundabout i fear is The one at Charles de Gaulle😬
Oh come on. Roundabouts are a fast way to go where you need to go.
In Finland at least people know how to use them. Even multilanes.
Surprised about the safety of roundabouts? Ironically, some of our cities are figuring out that removing traffic signs has been decreasing injuries, collisions, and congestion as well, with some cities having little to no signs at all. Paris for example only had one stop sign until 2012/2014... When it disappeared from the pole to never be seen again, perhaps stolen due to its uniqueness lmao
To Americans all things other people go trough without consequences, like introducing roundabouts or metric system, seem like the end of the world.
A roundabout is a one way priority street with side roads on one side only. If that is too complicated for you, stop driving.
America just needs more stricter testing of drivers.
Please please please make a video where you drive through an actual roundabout a few times, see how your experience improves!
Watch Mythbusters prove that roundabouts are more efficient and safer than intersections
What did surprise me in the USA traveling to Dallas from Los Vegas and when did I find furn the highway in New Mexico was a round about.
Large intersections in the USA are a horrific combination of the worst parts of interstates and inner city roads. Many lanes, which contribute to the distances from one side to the other, high speeds for virtually every vehicle, but with multiple traffic lights which thanks to the placement on the other side of the intersection make it at least somewhat ambiguous if there are MORE than four roads intersecting. Not lanes, roads. Check out Not Just Bikes for why what he terms a Stroad is both disgusting visually, as well as throughput, and a traffic accident waiting to happen.
Round-abouts are a perfect resolution of the problem who goes first.
Simple: those IN the roundabout go first. Those merging merge with the flow of traffic, never against it. Yeah, it seems obvious and ridiculous that I even had to mention it but from what I've seen in many videos even this simple logic seems to be above SOME American drivers. Note: not all, SOME.
When you approach a roundabout you ALWAYS yield to the traffic inside the round-about. Yield, not necessarily stop. A round-about should be structured to accomodate the flow of traffic. Smaller round-about, slower traffic, larger round-about with multiple lanes, slightly faster traffic. Yet the traffic flow should never be THAT high that you can't correctly judge the speed of the next approaching vehicle in the round-about. As for any right-side traffic you ONLY have to check to your left at a round-about, never ahead or to your right, it is very easy to judge how fast someone is approaching. At the worst, you let them pass, just like at a normal intersection.
But round-abouts have the next great thing: you can see all vehicles that are approaching you from the side, so you can see what is coming behind them a long time before they even reach you. So you could adjust way ahead to some dip$hit rushing it through the round-about. Instead of them suddenly appearing behind some huge SUV or truck at top speed. They are all offset one behind the other, not completely inline with each other.
Once you're in the round-about, take your time. If you know where to leave, great. If not, just don't worry, you will come past here again. Just go around once more. Nothing terrible is going to happen, and it usually takes only a few seconds.
I love round-abouts. They are so much neater and tidier, faster, and safer.
Dont drive around Denmark if you dont like roundabouts. They are everywhere from in the capital and countryside. They are impossible to avoid. I drive a speed pedelics 45 kph and roundabouts makes me fell safer as cars can't make right swings the same as in a crossing.
That’s the LA sense of entitlement that ppl feel driving around their nice cars here lol 😂
If they put a stop sign there, they just designed it wrong. In Europe we learn how to use them in mandatory driving school and if you can’t drive them, you won’t pass the practical driving test and don’t get your license
Coming from Britain, I absolutely hate 4 way stops. Mini roundabouts are the answer.
In London nearly 10 mill population round abouts everywhere n in other major cities n we have zebra crossing n loads of paths in Europe ahah so it will defo work over there
4:25 sure they are, beacuse you focus on the oncoming traffic and do not only rely on the signals tuning out anything around (someone running a red light).
Roundabouts are amazing once you figure out how to use them. Traffic can only come from left if left is clear you go. You use left lane if you do not exit on 1st exit and right lane if you do. If you are in left lane after first exit cars will clear out from right lane so you can swap lanes to exit next without competing for it. Crosswalks can be put on small roundabouts so cars just stop after they exit. But on the bigger ones underpass is often used.
In before Dutch advanced roundabouting: the turbo roundabout. It's not a circle, it's a spiral!
As it was said, it is cheaper and safer, I would recommend to build outside the big cities lots of roundabauts, every time you have to build a new or rebuild an intersection.
Up to a certain amount of traffic, the traffic even runs faster at a roundabout.
Below a certain amount, you even do not need a roundabout or a traffic light.
And when all the people outside the big cities know about the advantages of a roundabout, even the big cities will follow, as otherwise their citiziens, couldn't drive through the country, when they don't know roundabouts.
In the 80's Germnay started with a few modern roundabout, but know it is the intersection of choice.
G'day Guys! Here in Australia we now have many roundabouts, small medium and large multilane ones...When I got my driving licence in 1970 there were almost none but Ove r the years and with excellent government educational ads etc we got used to them and love them! It comes down to education and if every learner needed to show proficiency in using roundabouts then in a few years...Problem solved! Cheers!
Have a look at the Magic Roundabout in Swindon
I used to live in a place called Milton Keynes in the UK and the road system is based on the American grid system but at almost every intersection there is a roundabout. It was so easy to get around and there was hardly any waiting. The size of the roundabout can vary too, from large ones at motorway junctions to mini ones that you can just drive over. They all work better than traffic lights in my opinion.
I don't know if England is a good example - they don't even know they're driving on the wrong side of the road! 🤣🤣🤣
In the UK, we drive on the correct side of the road, it's you who doesn't know you're driving in the wrong side of the road
Hallo lovely people, much better then all the stop signes. We don't have them at our roundabouts.
In Poland, roundabouts are everywhere possible.
Yup carrouselles are confusing aren't they? 😂😂😂
I'm from a city that didn't use to have roundabouts until few years back and the speeding in the cross-sections was awful, especially if you were trying to cross the street as a pedestrian. Now the speeding has been reduced because of these roundabouts and speedpolice/bumps (how do you call them in English?), so it's more safer to move around as a pedestrian. Of course there are morons who think that laws are not for them and do whatever they like, but when their car goes flying, I'm the one enjoying the show.
I've seen different kind of roundabouts in one city - one with one lane and the other with two lanes and red lines separating the lanes, telling the driver which one to take when you want to go to a certain path. First time we saw this second version we were so confused but got the hang of it pretty fast, as it's quite simple. But I must tell you, having a roundabout in a port is a mf move from the designer - it does get congested when the cars, trucks and busses from the ship join the usual traffic and mayhem ensues. We have this problem in one of the ports in Finland and Estonia and it just drives me crazy, even though I'm not the one driving - just the fact that any kind of accident could happen before a long journey to or back home is pretty nerve wracking.
Roundabouts are great if they are sized and used correctly. If they're too small (what we in the UK call mini-roundabouts) then you can have a problem of who has right of way when it's crowded. If the roundabout is too large, then it's difficult to enter the roundabout because the cars on it are travelling at a higher speed. When this second problem occurs, a common solution is to install traffic lights at each entry point, which is stupid and creates a stop start journey. Three lane roundabouts are a pain because most drivers don't follow (or don't know) the rules.
Slow reaction here, but I've just found this excellent documentary on the subject.
As for "being afraid" of them, rest assured that you learn to navigate them when learning to drive and every driver (is supposed to) know the rules.
Enjoy: "Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does The U.S. Have So Few Of Them?" - CNBC
Roundabouts are becoming more popular in Canada and lots of them are being build lately at least in Ontario.
The fact that Americans find roundabouts, which any child elsewhere in the world can navigate, says everything about the level of intelligence in that country.
WITH AN STOP SINE. THAT'S NOW ROUNDABOUT !!!
There are literally 1000's in a big city like London, big ones , mini one and they are so easy.
I think Carmel has a massive high school as well that went viral on tiktok
14:52 Those stats equate to 180,000 lives lost over 20 years, not in Afghanistan but at intersections. Consider the number if you don’t restrict the timeframe to only 20 years….pretty shocking
I can totally understand being initimidated by and hence hating roundabouts if you've never been told how to do them but they are honestly so simple.
You yield/give way to the traffic coming from ONE direction. If it's a single lane roundabout that's it. You come on, when you have a gap, you indicate before before the exit you want to take and you leave.
I do think you're missing out with them there. If you know the basics on how to drive them they are great. So much quicker.
From my experience in the US driving though, I would rather never ever have to deal with a four way stop ever again. Those are terrible, goddawful bit of road design.
Oh and as to where they are, they don't tend to get retrofitted into existing confined areas with say a set of traffic lights; it depends entirely on the space available. But they do tend to get built where there is a lot of traffic throughput but say in suburban or more open areas.
I thought you talked about carousels. Nothing you said made any sense. 😂 Cheers!
had a conversation with Americans here last night in Scotland, its easy really just give way to the right, I take it you give way to the left, simple
I live in New England so roundabouts (or rotaries as we call them here) are pretty common. Some people up here still don't understand them though 😅
I don't get why crosswalks would be a problem
Sorry, but if you're confused by something as simple as a roundabout, you shouldn't be operating a motor vehicle...
Also a roundabout with a stop sign makes no sense at all. The point is to keep traffic flowing.
Melbourne Austalia has close to 4000 roundabouts.
No, they are not stupid in small neighborhoods as they reduce speeding.
This is still my favorite clip about Americans on a roundabout.
"What happens if you build a roundabout in America"
It's hilariously bad, and shows this is a lack of understanding problem.
thinking is hard in the US is what I get from this tbh.
Roundabouts do not prevent accidents but they do decrease the speed at which accidents occur and this is how they prevent deaths
I can't remember if you already reacted to them, or discussed them, but not just bikes did several videos about traffic lights etc that you might find interesting. :)
It takes 10 minutes to get used to a roundabout.
This is all about people being afraid of change and not wanting to be forced to learn a new thing. Particularly something that would be necessary for daily routines. Same reason the US ain't fully going metric any time soon.
The land of the free and the home of the brave being constrained by traffic lights and afraid of roundabouts?😂
Yeah when you can´t drive with the brain switched on then a roundabout is a challenge...roundabouts don´t work with drivers having a big ego not willing to give way ..because it works like a zipper